Guidewire Software

Guidewire Software, Inc. is a technology company that specializes in providing software solutions for property and casualty insurers globally. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, the company offers its flagship product, Guidewire InsuranceSuite, which includes ClaimCenter for claims management, PolicyCenter for policy administration, and BillingCenter for billing management. Additionally, Guidewire provides InsuranceNow, a cloud-based platform that integrates policy, billing, and claims management functionalities. The company also offers various specialized applications such as Underwriting Management, Rating Management, and Client Data Management, along with analytics and artificial intelligence tools to enhance decision-making and improve operational efficiency. Guidewire's solutions support essential insurance operations and are designed to meet the needs of insurers across diverse markets, with a focus on delivering digital experiences to customers and enhancing overall business performance.

Nigel Gurney

Finance Director EMEA

Shaji Sethu

Senior Vice President and General Manager

Past deals in Insurance

Pinpoint Predictive

Series A in 2024
Pinpoint Predictive is a technology company that provides property and casualty insurers with loss predictions and risk scores based solely on a customer's name and address. Its platform offers actuarial predictions related to claims frequency, severity, and loss costs, allowing insurers to enhance risk selection early in the customer journey. Additionally, the platform supplies risk scores for various purposes, including special investigation unit referrals, litigation, early cancellation, and premium leakage. By facilitating better tracking of consumers, Pinpoint Predictive enables insurance companies to tailor their product offerings more effectively.

Akur8

Series C in 2024
Akur8 is a developer of an AI-driven platform focused on insurance pricing and reserving. The platform utilizes machine learning and predictive analytics to automate and optimize pricing processes for insurance carriers. By integrating advanced algorithms, Akur8 enhances the speed and accuracy of pricing, allowing actuaries to create predictive models efficiently while ensuring transparency and control over the modeling process. This capability enables insurance companies to make improved decisions quickly, providing a competitive edge in the market.

Akur8

Venture Round in 2023
Akur8 is a developer of an AI-driven platform focused on insurance pricing and reserving. The platform utilizes machine learning and predictive analytics to automate and optimize pricing processes for insurance carriers. By integrating advanced algorithms, Akur8 enhances the speed and accuracy of pricing, allowing actuaries to create predictive models efficiently while ensuring transparency and control over the modeling process. This capability enables insurance companies to make improved decisions quickly, providing a competitive edge in the market.

Betterview

Venture Round in 2023
Betterview is a property intelligence platform tailored for property and casualty insurers, focusing on the analysis, scoring, management, and monitoring of property risk. By utilizing geospatial data and proprietary machine learning technology, Betterview transforms complex data into clear and actionable insights. This enables insurers to identify and mitigate risks effectively, enhancing operational efficiency and transparency throughout the policy lifecycle. The platform streamlines processes such as pricing, underwriting, and renewals, allowing insurers to make informed decisions and concentrate their efforts on high-risk properties, ultimately improving the overall customer experience.

Friss

Series B in 2021
Friss is the provider of analytics software for fraud, risk, and compliance for P&C insurers. Friss has 100% dedication to fraud, risk, and compliance for non-life insurance companies worldwide. FRISS helps insurers to achieve profitable portfolio growth and improve their perception in the market as trustworthy insurer. FRISS is a ready-to-use business solution and improves the insurers' loss ratios by identifying high risks and fraud at quotation, underwriting, and claim handling across all private and commercial lines. The FRISS® Score enables better decisions since it indicates the risk for each quotation, policy or claim. FRISS is global market leader with 150+ implementations in over 30 countries. FRISS (www.friss.com) offers a complete solution for fraud, risk and compliance. ☆ Risk assessment at underwriting ☆ Generate profitable growth for your portfolio by real-time automated detection and assessment of risks during the underwriting process. It is important to prevent fraud and assess risks by having a holistic view of prospects before they enter your portfolio. The FRISS underwriting solution provides an intelligent and uniform risk estimation, which is proven to improve the combined ratio significantly. ☆ Prevent and detect fraud at claims ☆ The general assumption is that, at average, around 10% of all Insurance Claims are tied to some sort of fraud. In order to finance these malicious claims, we all pay additional for our Insurance Policies. Three things are important: - How to detect fraud correctly and efficiently? - How to detect malicious customers in time? - How do you handle this in your daily operational business? Reduce your loss ratio by increasing the chances of detecting fraud and limit false positives to a minimum. Use automated fraud detection during the claims process to make an accurate and objective estimation of the risks related to a claim. It improves straight through processing (STP), and claims that need further attention will be recognized directly. ☆ Become and stay compliant ☆ Compliance concerns all insurance processes. Become and stay compliant with the latest legislation and regulations. Knowing and screening your customers will prevent reputational damage and avoids high penalties. Gain insight into Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs). This will enhance the quality of your underwriting process. Furthermore, administrative burdens will be reduced to a minimum. FRISS is recognized by Gartner in 2014 as the European market leader and striving to become the global leader.

Shift Technology

Series D in 2021
Shift Technology provides AI-driven decision automation and optimization solutions tailored for the global insurance industry. The company specializes in fraud detection and has developed a cloud-based platform that enhances the insurance claims process. By analyzing hundreds of millions of transactions, Shift's technology identifies potential fraud, allowing insurers to process claims more efficiently and effectively. The solutions offered by Shift aim to improve accuracy and speed in claims and policy resolutions, contributing to the overall enhancement of the insurance policy lifecycle. Shift Technology's innovations have been recognized in the industry, evidenced by receiving Frost & Sullivan’s Global Claims Solutions for Insurance Market Leadership Award in 2020.

Flyreel

Series A in 2020
Flyreel, Inc. is a technology company that develops a platform to assist with property insurance underwriting. Based in Denver, Colorado, the company utilizes artificial intelligence and insurance-specific computer vision to guide users through self-service inspections and claims processes. The platform captures comprehensive data about properties, including risks, hazards, features, and materials, creating a detailed record for policyholders. By enabling insurance carriers to make data-driven underwriting and policy decisions, Flyreel aims to enhance underwriting efficiency, improve risk management, and increase customer satisfaction. Originally incorporated as MyFactals, Inc. in 2013, the company rebranded to Flyreel, Inc. in March 2018.

Betterview

Convertible Note in 2020
Betterview is a property intelligence platform tailored for property and casualty insurers, focusing on the analysis, scoring, management, and monitoring of property risk. By utilizing geospatial data and proprietary machine learning technology, Betterview transforms complex data into clear and actionable insights. This enables insurers to identify and mitigate risks effectively, enhancing operational efficiency and transparency throughout the policy lifecycle. The platform streamlines processes such as pricing, underwriting, and renewals, allowing insurers to make informed decisions and concentrate their efforts on high-risk properties, ultimately improving the overall customer experience.

Cyence

Acquisition in 2017
Cyence Inc. is a company based in San Mateo, California, that specializes in economic modeling of cyber risk for the global insurance industry. Founded in 2014, Cyence has developed an innovative analytics platform that quantifies the financial impact of cyber risk in both probabilities and monetary terms. This platform assists insurance professionals in various aspects of risk management, including prospecting, selecting, assessing, and pricing risks, as well as managing risk portfolios and exposures. By leveraging data collection, machine learning, and advanced economic modeling techniques, Cyence enables insurers to introduce new insurance products to the market while effectively managing cyber risk. As of 2017, Cyence operates as a subsidiary of Guidewire Software, Inc.

ISCS

Acquisition in 2016
ISCS, Inc. specializes in the design and development of web-based software solutions for the property and casualty insurance market. Their flagship product, the SurePower Innovation Policy Administration suite, provides comprehensive services including policy administration, claims management, billing, underwriting, reinsurance, and accounting. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in San Jose, California, ISCS serves as a vital resource for insurance companies aiming to enhance their operational efficiency and drive business success. As of February 2017, ISCS operates as a subsidiary of Guidewire Software, Inc.

FirstBest

Acquisition in 2016
FirstBest Systems, Inc. provides software solutions for property and casualty insurers. It offers solutions that include underwriting workstations, agent portals, agency connectivity, and new business systems; FirstBest UMS, which combines underwriting and business analyst workstations with a Web 2.0 agent portal; FirstBest Agent, a point-of-sale portal for new business and renewals with supplemental data, shared documents, notes, and email notifications; and FirstBest Application Form Reader, an automatic form image translator. The company also provides FirstBest Front Office Suite that brings agents, brokers, MGAs, MGUs, and underwriters together in a collaborative underwriting process that incorporates business rules, collaboration and knowledge management tools, activities, predictive analytics, and information needed to submit, evaluate, quote, and close business. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Bedford, Massachusetts. FirstBest Systems is now part of Guidewire Software.

EagleEye Analytics

Acquisition in 2016
EagleEye Analytics, Inc. specializes in predictive analytics software and consulting services tailored for the property and casualty insurance sector in the United States, Canada, and other international markets. The company offers Talon Analysis Studio, a software-as-a-service platform for model building and data analysis, alongside Talon Management Studio, which assists non-technical staff in understanding and managing analytical results. Additionally, EagleEye provides real-time scoring services that deliver actionable insights for decision-making, as well as solutions for pricing, underwriting, claims analytics, and marketing distribution. With a client base that includes several leading insurance carriers, EagleEye Analytics serves a range of businesses, from large firms to middle-market clients. Founded in 2007 and based in Columbia, South Carolina, the company has established partnerships with industry players such as Milliman and Guy Carpenter.

Millbrook, Inc.

Acquisition in 2013
Millbrook’s innovative approach to safe data integration, using enterprise insurance data models helps minimize business disruption and reduce risk during new data migration deployments such as new policy or claims system implementations. From this end-to-end, highly effective approach, Millbrook clients receive qualitative and quantitative benefits, which often have a significant and positive impact on bottom-line results.
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